Harlan Coben. (2008). Hold Tight. Penguin Publishing Group.

Harlan Coben. 2008. Hold Tight. Penguin Publishing Group.

Harlan Coben, Hold Tight. Penguin Publishing Group, 2008.

Harlan Coben. Hold Tight. Penguin Publishing Group, 2008.

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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES!
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Stay Close and The Stranger delivers a #1 New York Times bestseller that asks how well parents really know their children—and puts them on a technological roller coaster of their worst fears.
“We’re losing him.” With those words, Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their sixteen-year-old son Adam, who has become increasingly moody and withdrawn since the suicide of his best friend. The software they install on his computer shows them every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. And each keystroke draws them deeper and deeper into a maze of mayhem and violence that could destroy them all....

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     Starred review from February 18, 2008
     Parents will find this compulsive page-turner from Edgar-winner Coben (The Woods
     ) particularly unnerving. A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside New York City, but somehow he's less frightening than the more mundane problems that send ordinary lives into chaos. How do you weigh a child's privacy against a parent's right to know? How do you differentiate normal teenage rebelliousness from out-of-control behavior? When and how do you intervene if suicidal signs appear? Other issues include single parenting; career versus family; marital honesty; and how much information you should share with a child at what age. Coben plucks each of these strings like a virtuoso as Mike and Tia Baye try to deal with the increasing withdrawal of their 16-year-old son, Adam, after a friend's suicide. A pair of brutal, seemingly senseless killings, punctuate the unfolding domestic troubles that ratchet up the tension and engulf the Baye family, their friends and neighbors in a web of increasing tragedy. The “this could be me” factor lends poignancy to the thrills and chills.

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     Coben ("The Final Detail") continues to dominate the thriller genre in this latest examination of suburbia. Mike and Tia Baye's son Adam delivers typically teen angst to his befuddled family. As a precaution, Mike and Tia invest in a spyware program that will report every keystroke on Adam's personal computer so they can track his movements. The results terrify them, and then Adam disappears. Life moves forward, and the questions become complex: How far would you go to protect your family? How well do you know your children? Coben tackles the troubles not only of the Bayes but also of other families, creating a strikingly realistic X-ray of an entire neighborhood. A fast and exhilarating roller-coaster ride that you don't want to end, but hold on tight. Then take the time to hug your kids. A mandatory purchase. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 1/08.]Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.

     Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     The average person visiting an electronics store may be excited, confused, or bored. It takes a suspense master likeCoben to realize the full pernicious potential, to extrapolate the eerie endgames, hidden in contemporary electronics. In thriller after thriller, Coben, who has a clutch of awards including the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony, casts a variety of electronic gadgets as prime plot movers and shakers. His genius is to make the seemingly mundane terrifying. In his latest, computer spyware, text messages, and cell phones deliver a series of well-timed shocks to the family he focuses onand to the reader. Coben begins with a harrowing scene in which a woman is forced from a bar and brutally murdered. Cut to a seemingly unrelated scenarioparents installing a program on their sons computer that can monitor his every keystroke. Throughout, Coben juxtaposes a serial killers spree with a domestic drama centering on the ways that a friends suicide has affected the son, his parents, and the entire neighborhood. A single message (Just stay quiet and all safe) shakes up the parents, who are soon spiked with terror as their son vanishes. Coben enhances the narration with shifting points of view and through the cryptic messages that follow the sons disappearance. He also brings the spate of serial killings closer and closer to the family. Fascinating.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)

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